RIPMEMD160 hashing in Powershell.
- [WIKI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIPEMD]
- [MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.ripemd160(v=vs.110).aspx]
RipeMD supports avalanche effect, whereas a small change in the original input results in a significant change in the hash. Also a zero-length string has a hash. (But it was difficult for me to implement a zero-bytes input, around the Get-Bytes class.)
- [Avalance Effect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect]
The MSDN page suggests that RIPEMD160 class is supported in .Net 2.0 Framework.